The electronic petition, which closes today, calls for an immediate moratorium on arrests for personal use of marijuana and the removal of restrictions on the cultivation, production and supply of cannabis. Consumers would be allowed to cultivate six plants in flower at any one time.

It also wants a two-year trial of decriminalisation and an independent body to oversee regulation and support for cannabis businesses.

But Attorney-General Shannon Fentiman said, in a brief statement provided by her office, “this is not currently on the agenda”.

While the government’s major law reform for 2021 will be voluntary assisted dying, the drug reform petition attracted a comparatively large number of signatures for an issue that has not drawn much public attention of late.

By comparison, a non-specific electronic petition to “fix youth crime” has so far attracted 16,053 signatures, while a petition to reduce the red tape faced by transgender people wishing to change their birth certificates has already been signed 10,310 times.

The only electronic petitions to attract more than 100,000 signatures have related to vehicle registration changes, however several daylight savings and abortion law reform petitions have attracted more than 20,000 signatures.